Grants

• Boost Mobile, a cellular telephone company based in Irvine, California, made a $150,000 grant to Education Is Freedom, a nonprofit group that provides college scholarships for low-income students.

• Howard University received a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to support the training of black students in breast cancer research. The grant will be used to fund post-doctoral programs in breast cancer research.

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